Sherman Alexie

A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexie's bond with his mother, Lillian, was more complex than most. She plunged her family into chaos with a drinking habit but shed her addiction when it was on the brink of costing her everything. She survived a violent past but created...

"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name ... one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name." --

From the National Book Award–winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the tale of a troubled boy’s trip through history.
Half Native American and half Irish, fifteen-year-old “Zits” has spent much of his short life alternately abused and ignored as an orphan and ward of the foster care system. Ever since his mother died, he’s felt alienated from everyone, but, thanks to the...

A virtuoso collection from one of America's best writers In this bestselling volume of stories, National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie challenges readers to see Native American Indians as the complex, modern, real people they are. The tender and tenacious tales of The Toughest Indian in the World introduce us to the one-hundred-eighteen-year-old Etta Joseph, former co-star and lover of John Wayne, and to the unnamed narrator of the title story,...

A gritty, smart thriller from a literary superstar A killer has Seattle on edge. The serial murderer has been dubbed "the Indian Killer" because he scalps his victims and adorns their bodies with owl feathers. As the city consumes itself in a nightmare frenzy of racial tension, a possible suspect emerges: John Smith. An Indian raised by whites, John is lost between cultures. He fights for a sense of belonging that may never be his-but has his alienation...

2009 Audies® Finalist for Best Audiobook Adaptation Category

"How could I look at my wife, the mother of my children, and feel only the need for revenge?" From Do You Know Where I Am? by Sherman Alexie

Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves

Sherman Alexie's Do You Know Where I Am?

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A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime

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Collection of poems revealing the spirit of North American Indian attitudes on life, love, and other experiences.

Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.